USATC S200 Class
| USATC S200 | ||
|---|---|---|
Factor of adh. 4.08 | | |
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Operators | USATC; War Department; TCDD; China Railway |
| Numbers | USATC & WD: 1000–1199 |
| Locale | Middle East, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Italy, China |
| Scrapped | 1959 (UK) 1959-1972 (Italy) 1973-1981 (Turkey) 1982-1983 (Iran) 1984-1986 (Iraq) 1988-1996 (China) |
| Disposition | Most scrapped. At least two known preserved. |
The
.Service
Middle East
At least 85 S200s operated in the Middle East, including Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon.[2] One was destroyed by fire at El Arish in Egypt in 1942.[3] 29 of this batch was later supplied to Turkey where they became the TCDD 46201 Class. In 1946, another 24 were transferred to TCDD which added them to the same number series 46201–46253. 51 S200s built in 1942 served on the Trans-Iranian Railway, where they became Iranian class 42.[4]
Europe
After the
FS stock as FS Class 747
Nos. 747.001–747.030; the other one caught fire and was destroyed.
Asia
Thirty were donated to
UNRRA. China Railway designated these as class ㄇㄎ10 (MK10) in 1951, then reclassifying them as class 解放10 (JF10, Jiefang, "Liberation") and numbering them 3711−3740.[citation needed
]
Survivors
Two of the Turkish locomotives survive: 46224 at Ankara and 46244 at the Çamlık Railway Museum.
References
- ^ Tourret 1995, p. 201.
- ^ Hughes 1981, pp. 70, 133.
- ^ Cotterell 1984, p. 133.
- ^ Hughes 1981, p. 125.
- Cotterell, Paul (1984). The Railways of Palestine and Israel. Tourret Publishing. pp. 28, 127. ISBN 0-905878-04-3.
- Hughes, Hugh (1981). Middle East Railways. Continental Railway Circle. pp. 98, 116. ISBN 0-9503469-7-7.
- Tourret, R. (1995). Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War. Abingdon, Oxon: Tourret Publishing. pp. 201–207. ISBN 0-905878-06-X.